WHATAWHATA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1429, 30 August 1881, Page 2

WHATAWHATA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Gentlemen who have large tracts of land in their possession are beginning to bo alive to the value of land in this district. Mr J C. Richmond, from Nelson, has been visiting these parts to look at some valuable jproperty of his adjoining Mr Days farm. it,ik,to be hoped we shall hear of some work to be carried out on tins gentleman's estate!" aa no" doubt this is the? sort of man to make the country goab;ea(l, ffad<by what I hear we shall soon see what is now fern and ti-tree fine pastures delighting the -eye 3 —of *the beholden *, \* ' ' > ; \ ' Mr F. Edgecrimbe is' busily engaged laying off a a new. township at Te Kore, which in connection with the new bridge will in all probability prove a success; and although at the first sale only a few lot 3 may be sold, the future will prove that this is where Alexandra should have been. This gentleman is something like the Flying Dutchman ; you see his camp in one place one day, , and if you should happen to be travelling 20 miles or so in an opposite direction you are somewhat surprised to find his camp there before you. Government seems to have an energetic and valuable officer, and one that does not spare himself when his duties are concerned. '